Then the group's luck seems to change. The mysterious existence of "Keyser Soze" intrudes as he orders the five criminals to do a single job for him worth $91 million. This job does not go off as planned and one of the two sole survivors is Verbal Kint, a crippled criminal who was partly responsible for the distaster that results from their efforts.
The Usual Suspects is the telling of Verbal's story, from the time the five men were pulled in by the New York police up until six weeks later when a ship is blown up in the harbor.
VERBAL: It didn't make sense that I'd be there. I mean these guys were hard-core hijackers, but there I was. At that point, I wasn't scared; I knew I hadn't done anything they could do me for. Besides, it was fun. I got to make like I was notorious.
RABIN: I'm telling you this guy is protected from up on high by the Prince of Darkness.
KEATON: How many times have you been in a line- up? It's always you and four dummies. The P.D. pays homeless guys ten bucks a head half the time. No way they'd line five felons in the same row. No way.
KEATON: His name is Verbal. Verbal Kint.
MCMANUS: Verbal?
KEATON: Yeah.
VERBAL: Roger, really. People say I talk too much.
HOCKNEY: Yeah, I was just about to tell you to shut up.
VERBAL: And that was how it began. The five of us brought in on a trumped-up charge to be leaned on by half-wits. What the cops never figured out and what I know now was that these men would never break, never lie down, never bend over for anybody. .. Anybody.
COP: I can put you in Queens on the night of the hijacking.
HOCKNEY: Really? I live in Queens. Did you put that together yourself?
KUJAN: Verbal, you know we're trying to help you.
VERBAL: Sure. And I appreciate that. And I want to help you, Agent Kujan. I like cops. I would have liked to have been a Fed myself but my C.P. was -
KUJAN: Verbal, I know you know something. I know you're not telling us everything.
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